Object-based information storage, search and mining system method

Abstract

The patent application taught an object based information storage, search and mining system and method, which can store, retrieve, and mine massively amount of object data efficiently. A first embodiment includes an object based search engine which can organize and identify the objects efficiently from the search space based on certain operational measure quantifying the search objectives. A second embodiment includes an operational measure estimator which can adaptively adjust or reconfigure itself to improve the accuracy of the estimation. A third embodiment includes a method for mapping objects onto a topological maps to enable identifying objects rapidly from the search space according to certain measures for search objectives. A forth embodiment includes a method for conducting object based search through mapping query objects and search objects onto topological maps and searching effectively through the maps based on certain operational measures.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims priority to U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60 / 638,929, filed on Dec. 22, 2004, entitled “OBJECT-BASED INFORMATION STORAGE, SEARCH AND MINING SYSTEM AND METHOD”, which is hereby incorporated by reference into the present application. [0002] This application claims the benefit of: [0003] U.S. utility patent application Ser. No. 10 / 867,447, filed on Jun. 14, 2004, entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE-DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL SEQUENCES ENCODING / DECODING”; and [0004] U.S. utility patent application Ser. No. 10 / 867,027, filed on Jun. 14, 2004, entitled “MEMORY AND ARRAY PROCESSOR STRUCTURE FOR MULTIPLE-DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING”, [0005] Wherein Ser. No. 10 / 867,447 and Ser. No. 10 / 867,027 each claim priority to U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60 / 480,985, filed on Jun. 23, 2003, entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE-DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL SEQUENCES ENCODING / DECODING,” a...

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Benefits of technology

[0011] The present invention provides a method to effectively represent, search, and manipulate multimedia objects through a group of interconnected multimedia search agents functioning logically on an interconnected multimedia storage network.

[0012] A first aspect of the invention is directed to a multimedia object mining agent (MOM), which can search for multimedia objects in a distributed multimedia data reservoir effectively to produce the results to satisfy certain content based multimedia queries.

Problems solved by technology

It is difficult to search for non-text media objects, like video, image, and audio, which are more targeted for human consumption.

There is no current effective method to arrange or sort media objects available in the disorder of the World Wide Web, or to construct an ordered media storage and media storage network structure based on the multimedia data content itself.

Most, if not all, of the current search engines available today utilize fixed search criteria and cannot tailor or adjust to the requester's individual tastes or measures.

The techniques and systems used in prior art systems are therefore optimized for, if not dedicated to, text-based searching, which limits their effectiveness for searching objects which are not text-based.

However, the reduction of media objects to a set of metadata, as used by conventional systems, necessarily eliminates large amounts of the most useful data and therefore can often yield an unsatisfactory search result.

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